Category: Announcement
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Gro For Good workshop: 23 March, Kwale County, Kenya
The Groundwater Risk Management for Growth and Development (GRo for Good) project is holding a workshop on 23rd March 2015 in Kwale County, Kenya as part of the Africa-wide UPGRo programme funded by NERC, ESRC and UK DFID. Improved understanding of groundwater risks and institutional responses against competing growth and development goals is central to…
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Call for papers on “Groundwater in rural areas: the challenges of improving local water security”
We are delighted that Professor Alan MacDonald (British Geological Survey), who is leading one of the Hidden Crisis UPGro project the Africa Groundwater Atlas, and Professor Richard Taylor who is the leading the UPGro GroFutures project and the Groundwater Chronicles Consortium with are chairing sessions at the 2015 IAH Congress in Rome, 13—18 September: Session…
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Groundwater Governance
10th March 2015 Two presentations followed extensive discussion. Groundwater risks and institutional responses in Kwale, Kenya (Jacob Katuva, Oxford University) and From Codes of Practice to a Code of Conduct – groundwater governance in Kenya from a drillers perspective (Tom Armstrong, JB Drilling). Practical issues of borehole design and construction, groundwater quality, gender and poverty…
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Groundwater Resources and Supplies in Africa
Two research-based presentations by: Joy Obando (Kenyatta University, Kenya) and Dan Lapworth (British Geological Survey, UK). With a focus on selected sites in in Comoros, Tanzania and Kenya, Obando’s presentation sets out key social and economic issues with respect to groundwater resources in coastal East Africa. Lapworth’s presentation examines the changes in water access and…
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UPGro invited by UNICEF to present at the UN Zaragoza Conference
(with thanks to John Chilton, Sharon Velasquez-Orta and Jose Gesti-Canuto) The UN-Water Annual Zaragoza Conferences serve UN-Water to prepare for World Water Day, which in 2015 will focus on “water and sustainable development” and celebrated the end of the International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life’, so it was especially important for taking stock of…
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ODI/UPGro “Groundwater, poverty and development” videos now online
If you missed the UPGro event at the ODI in London last month, or want to re-live it, the video recordings of the event are now available online on the ODI website: http://www.odi.org/events/4037-groundwater-poverty-development#audiovideo Again, many thanks to the ODI for being such fantastic host
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Africa Groundwater Research
9th December 2014 [PDF] Water for Wajir [PDF] Hidden Crisis – handpump failure in Uganda In this webinar, Jan de Leeuw presented his project’s work in developing and using a decision-support tool to enable a municipality to quantify the risk of developing a major new groundwater source from the Merti Aquifer, in Kenya. John Chilton…
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UPGro Consortium Projects Announced
The next phase of UPGro research has been set in motion with the announcement of which research teams and projects will be funded over the next five years. The competition was fierce and many fantastic ideas didn’t make it – but we sincerely hope that other research funders will take note and provide support. Five…
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New IGRAC film explains why groundwater is so essential – in 3 minutes
This importance of programmes like UPGro is emphasised in this new animated short from IGRAC (International Groundwater Resources Assessment):
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Mapping Groundwater Quality for Decision-Makers
25 November 2014 In this webinar, Pauline Smedley from the British Geological Survey presents the work done to get a better understanding of the occurance of high natural fluoride in the groundwater of the Ethiopian Rift Valley. High fluoride damages teeth and bones, particularly in children, but there are limited alternate source of water. Dr…
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